Arizona 2025 Regular Session

Arizona Senate Bill SB1169 Compare Versions

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1	1	REFERENCE TITLE: public nuisance; crime victims State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 SB 1169 Introduced by Senator Ortiz AN ACT Amending section 13-2917, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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68	68	Amending section 13-2917, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to offenses against public order.
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78	78	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 13-2917, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE13-2917. Public nuisance; abatement; classification A. It is a public nuisance, and is no less a nuisance because the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted is unequal, for anything: 1. To be injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property that interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community or neighborhood or by a considerable number of persons. 2. To unlawfully obstruct the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway. B. It is a public nuisance for any person to sell, offer to sell, transfer, trade or disseminate any item which that is obscene as defined in section 13-3501, within two thousand feet, measured in a straight line, of the nearest boundary line of any of the following: 1. Any building used as a private or public elementary or high school. 2. Any public park. 3. Any residence district as defined in section 28-101. C. The county attorney, the attorney general or the city attorney may bring an action in superior court to abate, enjoin and prevent the activity described in subsections A and B of this section. D. This section does not apply to crime victims who contact a law enforcement agency for assistance. D. E. Any person who knowingly maintains or commits a public nuisance or who knowingly fails or refuses to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE
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80	80	Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
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82	82	Section 1. Section 13-2917, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
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84	84	START_STATUTE13-2917. Public nuisance; abatement; classification
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86	86	A. It is a public nuisance, and is no less a nuisance because the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted is unequal, for anything:
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88	88	1. To be injurious to health, indecent, offensive to the senses or an obstruction to the free use of property that interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property by an entire community or neighborhood or by a considerable number of persons.
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90	90	2. To unlawfully obstruct the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any navigable lake, river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway.
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92	92	B. It is a public nuisance for any person to sell, offer to sell, transfer, trade or disseminate any item which that is obscene as defined in section 13-3501, within two thousand feet, measured in a straight line, of the nearest boundary line of any of the following:
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94	94	1. Any building used as a private or public elementary or high school.
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98	98	3. Any residence district as defined in section 28-101.
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100	100	C. The county attorney, the attorney general or the city attorney may bring an action in superior court to abate, enjoin and prevent the activity described in subsections A and B of this section.
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102	102	D. This section does not apply to crime victims who contact a law enforcement agency for assistance.
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104	104	D. E. Any person who knowingly maintains or commits a public nuisance or who knowingly fails or refuses to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor. END_STATUTE